Scaevola glabrata is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae. It is a small, spreading shrub with fan-shaped blue flowers and elliptic to egg-shaped leaves.
Scaevola glabrata is a spreading under-storey shrub to tall with upright needle-shaped stems that are glabrous or with occasional scattered hairs. The leaves are sessile or with a very short petiole, occasionally almost stem-clasping, egg-shaped, toothed, long and wide. The flowers are borne on spikes up to long, bracts elliptic-oval shaped and up to long. The blue corolla is long, hairy on the outside, bearded inside and the wings up to wide. Flowering occurs February to September and the fruit is cylinder-shaped, long, wrinkled and covered in soft hairs.[1] [2]
Scaevola glabrata was first formally described in 1986 by Roger Charles Carolin and the description was published in Flora of South Australia.[3] The specific epithet (glabrata) means glabrous.[4]
This scaevola grows mostly in rocky locations, sometimes in sand, extending from the Northern Territory, not including Arnhem Land, south to the northern parts of South Australia and just over the border into Queensland.[1]